The Diary by Samuel Pepys (children's ebooks online TXT) 📕

He subsequently followed the trade of conventicling, which brought him into trouble; and he died March 27th, 1687, in the house of the Countess of Exeter, to whom he was domestic chaplain. Abridged from Kennett’s Register. —⁠B. ↩

Matthew Griffith, D.D., rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, and preacher at the Temple. He was an Episcopalian, and author of several printed sermons. He died in 1665. —⁠B. ↩

Robert Barnwell, who died in June, 1662. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Radclyffe, of Dilston, Northumberland, and widow of Sir William Fenwick, Bart., of Meldon. Sir R. Slingsby’s first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Robert Brooke, of Newcells. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Francis Anderson and Sir John Morley were elected for Newcastle-on-Tyne, April 10th, 1661. ↩

Four triumphal arches were raised in the City in honour of the Coronation. The first was at the Lime Street end of Leadenhall Street, where Rebellion and Monarchy were personated. The second near the Royal Exchange, where one representing the River Thames made an address. The third, representing the Temple of Concord, was placed on the site of Cheapside Cross. The fourth arch, representing Plenty, stood in Fleet Street, near Whitefriars. ↩

The old East India House in Leadenhall Street, which existed from 1648 to 1726, had figures of ships and dolphins on the upper part of the front. ↩

“Church stile” is in long hand, and not in cipher. In an old book of accounts belonging to Warrington Parish, the following minute occurs: “Nov. 5, 1688. Payd for drink at the Church-Steele, 13s.;” and in 1732, “it is ordered that hereafter no money be spent on ye 5th of November, or any other state day, on the parish account, either at the Church-Stile, or at any other place.” —⁠Gent. Mag., November, 1852, p. 442. —⁠B. ↩

A large number of Knights of the Bath were made at the Coronation. A list is given in Haydn’s Book of Dignities, by Ockerby, 1890, p. 763. ↩

Edward Hyde (Lord Hyde), Viscount Cornbury, and Earl of Clarendon; Arthur (Lord Capel), Viscount Malden, and Earl of Essex; Thomas (Lord Brudenell), Earl of Cardigan; Charles Howard, Lord Dacre, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, and Earl of Carlisle; Sir Arthur Annesley (Viscount Valentia), Lord Annersley, and Earl of Anglesea; Sir John Granville, Viscount Granville of Lansdowne, and Earl of Bath. ↩

John Crew, Baron Crew of Stene; Denzil Holles, Baron Holles of Ifield; Sir Frederic Cornwallis, Bart., Baron Cornwallis of Eye; Sir Horace Townshend, Bart., Baron Townshend of King’s Lynn (merged in the Marquisate); Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Bart., Baron Ashley of Wimborne St. Giles (merged in the Earldom of Shaftesbury); Sir George Booth, Bart., Baron Delamere of Dunham Massey. ↩

The Cockpit at Whitehall, the residence of the Duke of Albemarle. ↩

The Humorous Lieutenant, a tragicomedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Published in the folio of 1647. ↩

Foreigners were workmen dwelling outside the city. ↩

The king in the early morning of the 22nd went from Whitehall to the Tower by water, so that he might proceed from thence through the City to Westminster Abbey, there to be crowned. ↩

The members of the Navy Office appear to have chosen Mr. Young’s house on account of its nearness to the second triumphal arch, situated near the Royal Exchange, which was dedicated to the Navy. ↩

John Carie and Sir Francis Lawley, two gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, represented the Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine. ↩

Simon Wadlow was the original of “old Sir Simon the king,” the favourite air of Squire Western in Tom Jones.

“Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers,
Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers.”

Ben Jonson, Verses over the door into the Apollo

The Simon Wadlow alluded to by Ben Jonson died March 30th, 1627. The Ashmolean Museum Catalogue mentions “Eight verses upon Simon Wadloe, Vintner, dwelling att ye sign of ye Devill and St. Dunstan,” commencing “Apollo et cohors musarum.” The Wadlow of Pepys was John, apparently the son of Simon. (See Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 766.) ↩

We do not see any reason for discrediting the statement that the whole of the Devil Tavern was pulled down in 1787, and of its having been purchased by Messrs. Child and Co. for the sum of £2,800, and in the year following the row of houses now known as Child’s Place was built upon the site. It may be worth recording that excellent cellars also run beneath the open space in front of those houses, as they were in all probability the cellars in which Simon Wadlow (the landlord at the sign of “St. Dunstan pulling the Devil by the nose,” commonly known as the “Old Devil”) kept his celebrated wines. The great room was called the Apollo. Here Jonson lorded it with greater authority than Dryden did afterwards at Will’s, or Addison at Button’s. Taken from Price’s ye Marigold. —⁠M. B. ↩

This company is represented in the curious contemporary picture by Stoop, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire. —⁠B. ↩

Mum. Ale brewed with wheat at Brunswick.

“Sedulous and stout
With bowls of fattening mum.”

J. Phillips, Cyder, Vol. ii p. 231

As soon as the beer begins to work, they put into it the inner rind of fir, tops of fir and birch, betony, marjory, pennyroyal, wild thyme, etc. Our English brewers use cardamom, ginger, and sassafras, instead of the inner rind of fir, and add also walnut rinds, madder, red sanders, and elecampane. —⁠M.